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Cultural formation Elisabeth Wast
As her piety increased she wondered whether she ought to limit herself, as a woman friend had decided to do, to hearing the preaching only of the strictest ministers, who were considering breaking with the...
Cultural formation Muriel Spark
Though she attended a Presbyterian school, MS was rarely taken to church. She was terribly interested
Spark, Muriel. “My Conversion”. Critical Essays on Muriel Spark, edited by Joseph Hynes, G. K. Hall and Maxwell Macmillan, 1992, pp. 24-28.
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in the scriptures and in Christ as a romantic figure, but subscribed to no religious faith. She says...
Cultural formation John Buchan
A Presbyterian Scot of the professional class by birth, with no drop of non-Scottish blood in his veins, JB became to some extent anglicized by spending most of his adult life in England.
Cultural formation Charlotte Dempster
CD grew up in the Church of Scotland , but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1891 after a decade living in France.
Dempster, Charlotte. The Manners of My Time. Editor Knox, Alice, Grant Richards, 1920.
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Cultural formation Elizabeth Melvill
While the Scottish parliament, meeting at Edinburgh in summer 1621, sought to wrench control of the Scottish Church from its radical wing, anti-episcopal Presbyterian ministers gathered at nearby Sheens to await the result. There EM
Cultural formation Mary Somerville
MS was born to parents who belonged to the Scottish gentry by birth and position (and were presumably white) but had little fortune; her father, Vice Admiral Sir William George Fairfax , was held his...
Cultural formation Elizabeth Heyrick
She was born a Dissenter and until her marriage attended the Presbyterian church in East Bond Street, Leicester. John Wesley visited the Coltman household during her youth. Later, during her widowhood, she became a Quaker .
Beale, Catherine Hutton, editor. Catherine Hutton and Her Friends. Cornish Brothers, 1895.
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Aucott, Shirley. Women of Courage, Vision and Talent: lives in Leicester 1780 to 1925. Shirley Aucott, 2008.
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Cultural formation Charlotte Despard
She was born into one of those families (in her case part Scottish, part Anglo-Irish) which manned the upper ranks of the British armed forces, but her upbringing was complicated by her father's death, her...
Cultural formation Lucy Aikin
LA was a middle-classEnglishwoman. She must have understood that she was white at an early age, when she took up the cause of abolition of slavery. The most important cultural influence on her was her...
Cultural formation May Drummond
Born into an upwardly-mobile Scottish bourgeois family and brought up in the Church of Scotland , MD was about twenty-one when she left the church, gave up their Society and Ceremonies (without, she wrote indignantly...
Cultural formation John Stuart Mill
JSM 's father was Scottish and brought up as a Presbyterian . He later rejected his religious training for Utilitarianism.
Mill, John Stuart, and John Jacob Coss. Autobiography. Columbia University Press, 1924.
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Cultural formation Helen Waddell
She was born a Presbyterian Northern Irishwoman with the distant Scottish roots that implies, into a highly educated family that was presumably white. Her biographer calls her temperament basically Irish, not Anglo-Saxon or monarchical
Blackett, Monica. The Mark of the Maker: A Portrait of Helen Waddell. Constable, 1973.
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Cultural formation Pearl S. Buck
PSB was born into a cohesive, coercive, and highly judgmental Presbyterian society, whose disapproval of her father's intense originality made her family close ranks against the majority of their own kind.
Spurling, Hilary. Pearl Buck in China. Simon and Schuster, 2010.
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She later...
Cultural formation Mary Louisa Molesworth
Though she grew up in England, MLM 's Scottish roots, on both sides of the family, were important to her. Her parents were, however, Calvinist Presbyterian s, and this faith, which she later regarded as...
Cultural formation Helen Waddell
Her father's death plunged the PresbyterianHW into a crisis of religious faith and a conviction that the goodness of God was a myth. Hating the Puritanism in which she had grown up, its stress...

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